Douglas Adams Quotes

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

All experience is subjective.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

What you believe you experience.

All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view.

Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.

I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.